Reports in Egypt that Israelis deliberately damaged a fertilizer plant and refineries near the town of Suez prior to withdrawal were emphatically denied here by authoritative sources. The sources noted that the plant had been damaged prior to the Yom Kippur War, during the war of attrition, and that additional damage had occurred during and after the Yom Kippur War. No equipment was removed by Israeli forces, the sources asserted. They noted that the Egyptian reports may have been circulated in order to prepare the population for huge sums of money the government will have to allocate for the rehabilitation of the Suez Canal zone, including the fertilizer plant and the refineries.
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